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Plant a Seed, Get Sued?
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First off, virtually all corn planted in the US is hybred. That means the seeds have to be grown in dedicated fields with the two types of parent corn planted next to eachother, and workers go out and pull all the tasels off the 'female' plants so that they cant selfpolinate and produce only seeds with the male plants as the polinator. the male plants are then killed and the female plants are harvested at the end of the season. They are seeds for planting. The plants they grow produce far more yeild, on stronger healthier plants with less fertilizer and pesticides then any other variety that is self polinating. So farmers buy these seeds and plant them. And they get great yields. But if they were to replant the yield, they would get sickly weak, low producing plants. Nobody plants self polinated corn, only hybred. And the only fields that need to worry about contamination are the hybred fields OWNED BY THE SEED COMPANY! They plant just plant beans around them.
Beans are different. Beans are not hybreds because its just not economical to industrially produce hybred seeds. Beans self polinate, and ONLY SELF POLINATE! Its impossible to get your beans contiminated fron your neighbor's field because they dont disperse pollen. Each flower is contained, and they are not polinated by wind, nor insects. Its impossible to have pollen contamination unless you intentionally do it. This involves getting on your knees with a tiny brush and cutting off the stamen of the mother flower and then brushing on pollen colledted from a father plant flower on the pistil of the mother flower. This single flower will then produce a pod of beans containing a grand total of 3 seeds. You can do it in a lab and it only takes a few hours per plant (1 hour per 100 seeds). But because the plants are selfpolinating, the seeds from a normal farmer's crop are all true. He could simply replant them and never pay the money that was spend to develop the plant. (thousands of tries of combinations of plants crossbreeding them in a lab for an incredible amount of work. So the seed companies require famers not to replant their patented seeds. Some may want to anyway, and like any other form of illegial copying, the companies does, and has the legal right to, prosecute the copyright infringment.
If it lasts 3 times as long, that dosent mean it won't be more profitable. Tires are a competitive market. The profit margin is likely less the 10% So lets assume its 10% and the new twheel lasts 3 times longer than its counterpart regular tire which costs $100. The new air-less tire retails at $270. Because of the patents they dont have competition besides the normal air filled tires, and it only costs them $200 to produce this tire. they get $70 profit margin compared to the $30 they would have gotten otherwise. The customer happily buy this new kind over the competition because he saves $30, and gets the other advantages (like unpuncturable, 1/3 as often replacment etc)
Could she even own the songs? If she cant enter a contract she cant buy the songs. They couldn't have lost money because she couldn't have spent it.
The songs are legally unpossesable. You cant steal something you cant posess. Noone can illegially copy old literature (say some classic like King James Bible. You cant illegially copy that because it cant be owned.)
I've been to Vietnam, and software piracy is incredible. They get new software very quickly as well. It's usually around 8,000 dong, just a little over $.50 for any CD, and they have been pretty good at finding something too if they don't have it.
I am the owner of an internet shop in Vietnam. And being able to go open source for the internet shop would be great! In Vietnam, the younger people spend nearly all the time in the internet shops chatting with their friends... This may present a problem with MSN and Yahoo. I know for example people really enjoy voice chatting (and webcam?) with Yahoo, which by far the most popular for chatting in Vietnam. I have yet to find anything for Linux that will allow voice chat and webcams from Yahoo to work. Is there anything available? I know this is one internet shop that will be quick to switch to Linux when the people get some knowledge of how to use linux, but switching before people know how to use it would be a bad business move. People go to chat, not to play around or learn things. If it's different they don't like it, and will walk a few blocks to the next internet shop.. I plan to set up a couple running linux give people an idea what it is, and how to use it. We've got a lot of people coming in to study Excel, as they often will use that at the school. As they are studying Excel, they can't just use openoffice or another alternative program. What I see as important for this to work for the average user, is easy to use voice chat, and webcam. Especially for Yahoo Messenger. And the schools begin to teach with Linux, which is sounds like that will happen. I'm in full support!
I was in Vietnam over the summer. Vietnam is #1 in the word for software piracy, with 94%. They cram everything they can fit onto a cd and with that comes some extra stuff you didn't even pay for...I was not surprised when I scanned five cds to find 4 of the 5 containing at least a few virii.
I am currently trying to learn Vietnamese as well, I have some software, but its been hard to find any programs for Vietnamese as it is not a very common language. I would have probably purchases this rosetta stone, had it worked in linux, but it doesn't:( I dislike having to go back into windows to run my language programs...
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It just takes a few changes. Try this:
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First off, virtually all corn planted in the US is hybred. That means the seeds have to be grown in dedicated fields with the two types of parent corn planted next to eachother, and workers go out and pull all the tasels off the 'female' plants so that they cant selfpolinate and produce only seeds with the male plants as the polinator. the male plants are then killed and the female plants are harvested at the end of the season. They are seeds for planting. The plants they grow produce far more yeild, on stronger healthier plants with less fertilizer and pesticides then any other variety that is self polinating. So farmers buy these seeds and plant them. And they get great yields. But if they were to replant the yield, they would get sickly weak, low producing plants. Nobody plants self polinated corn, only hybred. And the only fields that need to worry about contamination are the hybred fields OWNED BY THE SEED COMPANY! They plant just plant beans around them.
Beans are different. Beans are not hybreds because its just not economical to industrially produce hybred seeds. Beans self polinate, and ONLY SELF POLINATE! Its impossible to get your beans contiminated fron your neighbor's field because they dont disperse pollen. Each flower is contained, and they are not polinated by wind, nor insects. Its impossible to have pollen contamination unless you intentionally do it. This involves getting on your knees with a tiny brush and cutting off the stamen of the mother flower and then brushing on pollen colledted from a father plant flower on the pistil of the mother flower. This single flower will then produce a pod of beans containing a grand total of 3 seeds. You can do it in a lab and it only takes a few hours per plant (1 hour per 100 seeds). But because the plants are selfpolinating, the seeds from a normal farmer's crop are all true. He could simply replant them and never pay the money that was spend to develop the plant. (thousands of tries of combinations of plants crossbreeding them in a lab for an incredible amount of work. So the seed companies require famers not to replant their patented seeds. Some may want to anyway, and like any other form of illegial copying, the companies does, and has the legal right to, prosecute the copyright infringment.
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If it lasts 3 times as long, that dosent mean it won't be more profitable. Tires are a competitive market. The profit margin is likely less the 10%
So lets assume its 10% and the new twheel lasts 3 times longer than its counterpart regular tire which costs $100.
The new air-less tire retails at $270. Because of the patents they dont have competition besides the normal air filled tires, and it only costs them $200 to produce this tire. they get $70 profit margin compared to the $30 they would have gotten otherwise. The customer happily buy this new kind over the competition because he saves $30, and gets the other advantages (like unpuncturable, 1/3 as often replacment etc)
So being a minor she couldn't own the computer.
Could she even own the songs? If she cant enter a contract she cant buy the songs. They couldn't have lost money because she couldn't have spent it.
The songs are legally unpossesable. You cant steal something you cant posess. Noone can illegially copy old literature (say some classic like King James Bible. You cant illegially copy that because it cant be owned.)
I've been to Vietnam, and software piracy is incredible. They get new software very quickly as well. It's usually around 8,000 dong, just a little over $.50 for any CD, and they have been pretty good at finding something too if they don't have it.
I am the owner of an internet shop in Vietnam. And being able to go open source for the internet shop would be great! In Vietnam, the younger people spend nearly all the time in the internet shops chatting with their friends... This may present a problem with MSN and Yahoo. I know for example people really enjoy voice chatting (and webcam?) with Yahoo, which by far the most popular for chatting in Vietnam. I have yet to find anything for Linux that will allow voice chat and webcams from Yahoo to work. Is there anything available? I know this is one internet shop that will be quick to switch to Linux when the people get some knowledge of how to use linux, but switching before people know how to use it would be a bad business move. People go to chat, not to play around or learn things. If it's different they don't like it, and will walk a few blocks to the next internet shop.. I plan to set up a couple running linux give people an idea what it is, and how to use it. We've got a lot of people coming in to study Excel, as they often will use that at the school. As they are studying Excel, they can't just use openoffice or another alternative program.
What I see as important for this to work for the average user, is easy to use voice chat, and webcam. Especially for Yahoo Messenger. And the schools begin to teach with Linux, which is sounds like that will happen. I'm in full support!
I've also had email denied from email.com and worldnet.att.net at times when I send from my Cable Modem-Hosted Server.
I was in Vietnam over the summer. Vietnam is #1 in the word for software piracy, with 94%. They cram everything they can fit onto a cd and with that comes some extra stuff you didn't even pay for...I was not surprised when I scanned five cds to find 4 of the 5 containing at least a few virii.
I am currently trying to learn Vietnamese as well, I have some software, but its been hard to find any programs for Vietnamese as it is not a very common language. I would have probably purchases this rosetta stone, had it worked in linux, but it doesn't :( I dislike having to go back into windows to run my language programs...